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Millenials: What changes do the rising generation bring to the workplace and, by extension, society in general?

Topic Host: Mollee Lamb Prep Materials: The Tethered Generation by Kathryn Tyler HR Magazine May 2007 http://www.shrm.org/hrmagazine/articles/0507/0507cover.asp Managing Demographic Risk by Rainer Strack, Jens Baier, and Anders FahlanderHarvard Business Review Feb. 1, 2008 (electronic download available for $6.50 at http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ ) optional: The Next 20 Years: How Customer and Workforce Attitudes Will Evolve by Neil Howe and William StraussHarvard Business Review July 1, 2007 (electronic download available for $6.50 at http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ )

Role shifts, mothering, gender, and visual art

Topic Host: Leah Moses Gandhi Prep materials: http://mosesgandhi.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/maternicity/ http://segullah.org/summer2007/nursing/ http://mosesgandhi.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/on-children-kahlil-gibran/ http://mosesgandhi.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/a-challenge-whose-proportions-are-heroic/ http://mosesgandhi.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/riding-the-third-wave/ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7829860 http://montagecreative.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html http://mosesgandhi.wordpress.com/thesis/

Election year issues: aging population, race relations, public schools, American values in crisis

Topic Host: Carri Hulet Prep materials: Articles from The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/sotu-opener http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/miller-education http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/aging-boomers http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/jena6 http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/guantanamo-photos